Volunteer group sets up warming tents ahead of winter blast
At Civic Center park in downtown Denver, there's a group of tents set up as an emergency shelter of sorts put together by volunteers to help the most vulnerable in these cold temperatures.
At Civic Center park in downtown Denver, there's a group of tents set up as an emergency shelter of sorts put together by volunteers to help the most vulnerable in these cold temperatures.
Holcim reported better than expected profit at the start of the year, the building materials and cement maker said on Thursday, despite the high value of the Swiss franc weighing on sales. The Swiss company, which is due to separate and spin off its North American business next year, reported recurring operating profit (EBIT) rising 7.8% to 532 million Swiss francs ($581.80 million), beating analyst forecasts for 501 million francs. Sales fell 2.4% to 5.59 billion francs, roughly in line with forecasts for 5.62 billion Swiss francs in a company gathered consensus.
The pledge will form a central part of the party's election manifesto.
Asian stocks fell on Thursday as disappointing earnings forecasts from Facebook parent Meta Platforms hammered tech shares, while the yen's slump past 155 per dollar for the first time since 1990 raised the spectre of intervention from Tokyo. A 15% dive in shares of Meta in extended trading after the Instagram parent forecast lighter-than-expected current quarter revenue and higher expenses soured the mood, sparking a sell-off in U.S. tech and tech-related stocks. The hit to Asian tech stocks took MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan down 0.5%.
Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, should go to prison for three years after breaking the law "on an unprecedented scale" and pleading guilty to a money-laundering violation, federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing on Wednesday. - A group of seven leading solar manufacturers filed trade complaints with the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday formally requesting that the Biden administration impose tariffs on solar products being exported from Southeast Asia into the United States. - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the sale of an antibiotic, Pivmecillinam for the treatment of urinary tract infections in women, giving U.S. health providers a powerful new tool to combat a common infection that is increasingly unresponsive to the existing suite of antimicrobial drugs.
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Police arrested dozens of protesters in California and Texas and Wednesday night as pro-Palestine protests continue to spread across the US.
North Macedonian presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova held a big lead over incumbent Stevo Pendarovski with votes counted from 99.03% of polling stations on Thursday, but both were short of the 50% backing needed to win outright. Siljanovska-Davkova of the rightist VMRO-DPMNE had 40.08% of votes while pro-European Pendarovski, who has the support of the Social Democratic party, stood at 19.93%, the State Election Commission said.
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The Foreign Secretary defended the controversial plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda as ‘the right one’.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Just a few days ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder looked like a young team struggling through their first playoff game together. On Wednesday night, they looked like grizzled playoff veterans. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33 points and the top-seeded Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans 124-92 to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff series. Gilgeous-Alexander said the Thunder remained focused instead of worrying about outside issues such as other h
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In a vote of 32-28, the Arizona House has voted to repeal the state's abortion ban statute. Three Republicans, Matthew Gress, Justin Wilmeth, and Tim Dunn, joined with all House Democrats in voting yes Wednesday afternoon.